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But the best managers aren't what we are talking about. Or rather, what is the point of management - to organise resources to achieve organisational objectives.

Resources are now CPUs. A farm that bought a thousand tractors and combine harvesters but still tried to have the same manual labourer management practises, hiring, compensation would struggle.

We are seeing old labour practises trying to meet a world where one coder can launch and co-ordinate thousands or hundreds thousands of CPUs globally.

There is a management impedance mismatch




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